Re: 2.0 installer integration

From:

Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

Thu, 24 May 2007 18:03:24 -0700 (PDT)

:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
:> It would be fairly easy to MFC it, but HEAD is stable right now so
:> just moving to HEAD would also work, or moving to Preview.
:
:Let me know if you do this, and also if you MFC that "last mounted on"
:change. I'd really like to play with this a bit, it would save a lot
:of trouble.
:...
:I guess to get an ISO to work I'd have to do
:
: ROOTDEVNAME=\"cd9660:vkd0c\"
:
:in the VKERNEL config? I thought kernels knew how to boot off of ISOs
:by default?
:------
:Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org
I'll tell you what. I'll implement ISO booting support in HEAD's
vkernel with an option. We really want to have a few bells and
whistles along with it, such as using a different device name and
making it read-only to properly simulate a CD boot. In fact, the
installer might just work right out of the box with that sort of
environment.
If you have a problem getting a HEAD machine together to do development
I would be happy to set up an environment on leaf.dragonflybsd.org
for you. I'd rather not spend the time MFC'ing the stuff to 1.8 (though
that doesn't prevent other people from doing so).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>